I agree, unless you doing low level stuff where you need absolute control you should use a modern language with proper abstraction just to save time. Most use cases where they use C++ can be replaced with Rust or Go as they aren’t saddled with years tech debt and bloat due to having mantaining backwards compatibility.

Just use C. It solves all those problens given the most complicated feature is pointers and those hard aren’t to understand.

Thank you all for offering advice. I did eventually get it working and repaired all the packages.

Nevermind I ran a script that looped through all packages in the output of pacman -Qk and reinstalled them.

I couldn’t figure out how to mount /dev/sda1 and did pacman -Syu and then I mounted it once I figured it out now pacman says there is nothing to do.

Did systemd or grub not even show up?

Will this work from slax linux? I am sorry if I seem like I can’t fix the issue myself seeing as you have given the resources for me to do so but what would be the exact steps to do that?

Thanks I might try that out later.

I ran it on my pc with a gtx 1070 with cuda enabled and compiled with the cuda compile hint but it ran really slowly how do you get it to run fast?

Just to warn you it might be very bulky and the model that the script is downloading is deprecated so you’ll have to find a different .gguf model on hugging face. Try to find a lightweight .gguf model and replace the MODEL variable with it nane as well the rest of the link. Or just download from a browser and move it into the models folder.

I believe Llama is open source but not sure how complicated it is to get running locally. Nevermind: https://replicate.com/blog/run-llama-locally

You can probably write a bash wrapper around it that feeds in “Can you summarize this text: (text here)” by setting the PROMPT variable the bash script. (Probably just do PROMPT=“Can you summarize this text: $1”) (Obviously don’t recompile everytime so remove the clone build and download code)

You can use tldr for man pages but for generic text I don’t know. You would probably need a LLM.

Just someone didn’t develop something dosen’t mean they can’t passionately share it. If you like a TV show and started talking about how much you like the show it wouldn’t rude for you to share just because you weren’t the director of the show.

No, I have never used any of those closed source options. I wanted cloud services I have perfectly good esp32 lying around. And if I get worried about the vendor provided system libraries I can just buy a Raspberry Pi or something.

As yes good old M-x-Butterfly.

Sounds inefficient. You can only store 8 gigs and goes away when you shut off your computer? I just put it on punch cards and feed it into my machine.

It might be you don’t have the group for deepin so it wouldn’t be useless to try grepping for it.

If you want DEEPIN:

Update your system: sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Install it: sudo dnf group install "Deepin Desktop"

And then after for change reboot your system You can do it from the terminal like: sudo reboot

If you want GNOME try: sudo dnf group install “GNOME Desktop Environment”

Although if: sudo dnf group list hidden -v |grep -i gnome returns nothing it won’t work

If your using gdm you can select DEs like:

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What dm are you using and what packages did you install?